514 PALMiE. 



Tkibe I. ARECINEJE.— Fruit simple, 1-seeded, (or %-%-partite, or -pyrenous) -. puta- 

 tnen thin, devoid of a special pore at the embryo-cavity, (rarely thick, bony, then with a 

 single porej. 



Subtribe I. SABALINEJE. — Flowers usually hermaphrodite. Berry smooth. Leaves 

 palmatifid or palmatisect : divisions induplicate. — Spadix often with special spathes at 

 its divisions. 



1. COPERNICIA, Mart. 



Perigone exterior 3 -dentate, interior 3-fid. Ovary 3 -celled ; style simple ; stigma capi- 

 tate, terminal in fruit. Berry 1 -seeded. Albumen ruminate: embryo basilar. — Petioles 

 prickly ; flowers sessile. 



1. C. tectorum, Mart. "Leaves palmatifid to beyond the middle, forming half a 

 circle or more ; spadix-branches paniculate ; exterior perigone hoary-pubescent, interior 

 sericeous-tomentose ; berry olive-shaped." — SI. t. 213. /. 2 : a leaf. — Thrinax sp., Gosse, 

 Jam. p. 304. — 1 refer to this species Sloane's thatch-palm, No. 10, though it does not 

 occur in recent collections. That Sloane's plant is a Copernicia, is apparent from the 

 "prickly" petioles, the fruit "shaped like an olive" {SI. 2. p. 122), and the vernacular 

 name " Carnaiba," quoted by him. " Trunk smooth, about 10' high, with a swelling at its 

 bottom ; leaves 1|' diam. (in the figure) : petiole 2'-3' long " (SI.)— Hab. Jamaica, on all 

 the honeycomb rocks (SI.), on vertical limestone-rocks (Gosse) ; [Haiti (Mart.) ; Llanos of 

 Venezuela (Humb.)~\. 



2. SABAL, Ad. 



Perigone exterior 3-fid, interior 3-phyllous. Ovary 3-celled: style simple: stigma 

 capitate, suprabasilar in fruit. Berry 1-seeded or 2-3-partite. Albumen entire, concave at 

 the base : embryo lateral. — Petioles unarmed; flowers sessile ; berries globose. 



2. S. umbraculif era, Mart. Trunk at length high ; " leaves large, glaucesccnt, sub- 

 orbicular, multifid to one-third to two-thirds, with loose fibres between the bifid lobes, shorter 

 than the petiole ; spadix half as long as the leaves :" branches paniculate ; leaflets of the 

 inner perigone ovate-lanceolate, thrice as long as the outer perigone, equalling the stamens ; 

 berries greenish-black (4"'-5'" diam.) ; embryo nearly at the middle of the albumen. — Mart. 

 Palm. i. 130. Du Tertre Hist. t. 5. /. 7 : the habit.— Trunk 60'-80' high (Pd.) ; leaves 

 4'-6' diam., petiole 6-8', spadix 4'-5' long; "flowers whitish." — Hab. Bahamas (Mart.) ; 

 Jamaica ! : Pd., e.g. Black river savannah : [Cuba to Caribbean islands]. 



3. S. mauritiiformis, Gr. et Wendl. Trunk high ; leaves large, glaucous beneath, 

 " suborbicular," multifid to the middle, with loose fibres between the bifid lobes, longer than 

 the petiole ; " spadix exceeding the leaves -." branches paniculate ; leaflets of the inner pen- 

 gone lanceolate-litiear, thrice as long as the outer perigone, equalling the stamens ; " berry 

 black : size of a pea." — Karsten in Naturleben, p. 105 : the habit. — Trithriuax, Karst. 

 S. glaucescens, Lodd. (not described), is probably the same palm. — The description of the 

 flowers is taken from a specimen, cultivated in the botanical garden of Trinidad, that of the 

 leaves from Mr. Crueger's label accompanying it. Trunk middle-sized, l'-lj' thick, little 

 annulate (Cr), but reaching to 60'-80' (Karst.) ; leaves 12' diam., petiole 7'-8', inner peri- 

 go. ,'i 2'" long. — Hab. Trinidad; [Venezuela]. 



A stemless Sabal (S. taurina, Lodd.), allied to S. Adansonii, but distinguished from 

 it, occurs in gardens as introduced from Jamaica or Trinidad, but is not sufficiently known. 

 Another Sabal, cultivated at Kew as S. umbraculifera, and said to be introduced from 

 Trinidad, is not that species, but apparently a lower palm (the Kew specimen measured 14 

 3" in 1862, and had already produced flower and fruit iu 1856), distinguished by larger 

 (8'" diam.) berries and thinner perigonial leaflets ovate, blunt (about 1"' long), twice as long 

 as the outer series : it is to be compared with S. Palmetto, Lodd. 



3. THRINAX, L.fil. 



Perigone exterior 3-fid, interior often passing partly into stamens. Ovary simple, 1- 

 ovulate; style terminal, simple ; stigma infundibular. Albumen ruminate: embryo at its 

 summit. — Petioles unarmed; flowers pedicellate ; berries globose. 



